Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Becky Johnson

Name: Becky Johnson

URL: http://www.beckyjohnsonpastels.com/Bio: Born near St. Louis, Missouri, Becky Johnson spent her childhood traveling extensively with her military family. From her earliest years, drawing was her chief creative outlet, and after moving to Green Mountain Falls, Colorado in 1972, she began to pursue painting as a full-time career. After an early focus on painting wildlife, in recent years landscape, often en plein air, has become her primary focus.Becky participates in juried and invitational exhibitions throughout the west and Midwest, and her work has received numerous awards. Her work is displayed in collections throughout the United States and overseas, including in the permanent collection of the Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Kansas, and the permanent collection of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska. In 2010 she won Second Prize - Animals and Wildlife Category, Pastel 100 National Competition, The Pastel Journal and in 2009 the People's Choice, Douglas Invitational Art Show, Douglas Wyoming.Medium: Pastel.Subjects: Landscape,wildlife.Style: Representational. Becky often works in small formats, which she feels keeps her work fresh and loose as she doesn’t have to get snared in the detail.Navigation: Main menu remains at side.Gallery: Original Pastel PaintingsImage View: Going to the first gallery back reveals some half-a-dozen images, and a further link, More Originals, which brings you through a further ten pages of images. Only those on the last few pages have been enabled for enlargement. Download is permitted. Heading Home is 18.5 x 15.5 ins, 383 x 442, 39.4 KB. I chose it because it's unseasonably cold in Ireland at the moment, and Becky's painting shows me how much colder it can be elsewhere!Demo: No.Blog:/EBay/Flickr: No.

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The stated purpose of this blog is to list and review the websites of artists who work in pastel. For the artists featured there is the added benefit of having more traffic directed to their site.

I am always interested in hearing from artists who would like to be listed. Email me at oldenbroke@gmail.com.

It is generally recognised that reviewers may make use of material that is copyright for the purposes of review. I operate under that principle. It is not always possible to request permission of artists to use an image of their work in this blog, especially if the artist is not anglophone. I hope that all artists understand that posting an example typique of their work is essential to the generation of interest in their oeuvre.

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This blog aims to be an international directory of artists who express themselves wholly or substantially in pastel. Websites are listed by surname followed by first name, over several pages. The format is a short dataset of essential details about the artist and the site, with a type image of their style. It does not attempt to critique the artist or his/her work, but it does have remarks to make about ease of navigation, labelling of artwork, and image download - an essential learning tool for the student of pastel. Publications are only mentioned where an artist has authored a book - there are too many journal articles to reference. I have on occasion referred to an artist as being in my "top ten" - I have yet to list ten such, and my criteria for inclusion in this exclusive club include a unique vision, a unique expression of that vision, and inspirational material. As an example, I can cite someone who has no website and who will not therefore appear elsewhere on this blog- the wonderful, masterly, inimitable Jane Lund.

About Me

I have been painting with pastels for 25 years or so, and have learned from the very practical publications of artists like Alan Flattmann, Daniel E. Greene, and more recently Richard McKinley and Ellen Eagle.
The work of other artists who work in the medium is always of interest, hence this blog, and I am happy to have met many of them, and interviewed some for the Pastel Journal.
Still Life is the subject matter that most interests me, and my pastels have been exhibited in Ireland, in France and in China.